Yes, once the Market application is fixed so I don't get bad ratings for failed downloads, installations and "force close" issues after an update. I haven't seen my game crash ever (except during development) and I haven't had not even 1 bug/crash report for it but then I started updating it and I got an avalanche of force close comments along with 1 star ratings. These comments and ratings surely hurt the paid version, although it doesn't have bad ratings and comments (and is rated > 4.50).
There's something else - there will be always users who like free apps, not willing to pay, who post bad comments, and give bad ratings simply because the free app is limited compared to the paid app. I had a 2-star rating with the comment "great game, but 2 short - only 9 levels" (it had 10). So, when I publish an update to my game this week I'll publish a free version as well, but will remove it in less than month. I'll also publish the free version under a *different* name so it has a chance to start w/o the bad Market app-related comments, even though it won't have ~10K downloads as the removed one had before I removed it 3 weeks after I released it. Cheers On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Muthu Ramadoss <[email protected]> wrote: > Can't there be a lite and pro versions always? > > On Mar 17, 2009 6:40 PM, "Stoyan Damov" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Correction :) > > Started as *C* (release both paid and free), moved to B (paid only), > will move to C and then back to B :) > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> > wrote: > Started as B, now C... > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
